Link: The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

Link: The Emergency is the Atmosphere

Chicagoland podcaster and author Kelly Hayes wrote a post that captures what many Chicagoland residents are feeling right now: There’s a gas mask on a bookshelf in my living room. I keep telling myself to move it to the car, in case ICE drops a tear gas canister in the street again because someone heckled them or hit record. I want to be useful, and hold my ground, when others are hurt or being brave.  So, I should remember to put the gas mask i…

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

Listen to this article0:00/512.051×My city is under siege. Troops are arriving in the suburbs. Federal agents are storming apartment buildings, pulling people out of cars and beds, shooting people in the street, robbing children of their parents, and we can barely track the damage, let alone get in the way. We're told not to get in the way. We're told to film them. Sometimes they arrest people for that too. We're told to write it all down, so th…